LEADER 04073nam 2200649 450 001 9910133544003321 005 20230621135406.0 010 $a2-271-08049-5 024 7 $a10.4000/books.editionscnrs.1210 035 $a(CKB)3390000000053490 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001541693 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11830493 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001541693 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11535601 035 $a(PQKB)11367266 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00045252 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-editionscnrs-1210 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/53213 035 $a(PPN)182839699 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000053490 100 $a20160829d2002 uy 0 101 0 $afre 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aLes messagers volants en terre d'Islam /$fYoussef Ragheb 210 $cCNRS Éditions$d2002 210 31$aFrance :$cCNRS e?ditions,$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (345 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aConnaissance du Monde Arabe 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$aPrint version: 9782271059970 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThe pigeon has played a central role in Islam from the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate (late VIIIth century). From the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates which were undoubtedly the cradle, it reached the East as well as the West (Andalus and Sicily). But no state attached more value to it than that of the Mameluks which covered the Empire with a dense network of dovecotes, from the banks of the Euphrates in northern Syria to the Red Sea in Egypt. These air messengers served the sovereigns, in time of war, as in time of peace for sometimes unforeseen ends: winged couriers carried freshly picked cherries to Damascus to treat the Fatimid Caliph Azîz in Cairo and spare him the unnecessary trouble of 'a long trip. However, they risked, despite their loyalty, to violate the secrets entrusted to their guard to deliver them to the enemy, if they fell into his hands. The intercepted banknotes could then be replaced by forgeries, which, instead of rekindling the ardour in the walls, brought desolation there, even if a rescue army came running to save them from peril. Flying messengers have also served individuals, since the advent of the Abbasids: lovers entrusted them with soft tickets; the sects learned through them the facts which had occurred in distant regions, before the fame, with its swift wings, spread the rumour. The merchants had to draw fruit from the secrets entrusted to their wings from the end of the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment: those of Baghdad were thus instructed in the course of the riches of the Indies landed in the Persian Gulf and could speculate at leisure before their arrival. On return trips, long-distance pigeons commonly covered 800 to 1,000 kilometres. A few off-line bottom birds even exceeded 2,000, returning from Pergamon and Constantinople to Basra or from Tunis to Cairo. These feats were not equalled, then largely exceeded in the West in the second half of the 19th century.th century and the threshold of the XX th , when the lost secrets of the East were found after a huge oversight. 410 0$aCollection "Connaissance du monde arabe" 606 $aAgriculture$2HILCC 606 $aEarth & Environmental Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aAnimal Sciences$2HILCC 610 $aislam 610 $aÉgypte 610 $aEmpire abbasside 610 $aBagdad 610 $acolombophilie 610 $aIraq 610 $apigeon voyageur 615 7$aAgriculture 615 7$aEarth & Environmental Sciences 615 7$aAnimal Sciences 676 $a636.5/96 700 $aRagib$b Yusuf$0473220 801 0$bPQKB 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910133544003321 996 $aLes messagers volants en terre d'Islam$91966397 997 $aUNINA